Looking for gadgets for your PC to spend your holiday cash on? In this article, we take a look at six different products from ATI, D-Link, OCZ, Seagate, Shuttle, and X-Micro, ranging from external TV tuner solutions, to portable storage, and even a little MP3 action as well. Perhaps you'll see something that catches your eye inside!

Case lighting has grown hugely popular over recent years, and Corsair have just taken it to the next level with their XMS Xpert memory modules - they feature a 10-digit alphanumeric display! seeing is believing. HEXUS.net have a preview.

Apple boss Steve Jobs has unveiled the company's vision for 2005 at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco.

The SoftPear Project aims to create compatibility software between the IBM PC and the Apple Macintosh architecture.

With Mac OS X, an excellent operating system is available, unfortunately it runs only on Macintosh hardware. Therefore this project seeks to create compatibility layers to run Mac OS X on IBM PC hardware.

Doom 3 is a very good first person action game based on the OpenGL engine and like everyone else we are interested in the performance results from the latest NVIDIA and ATI graphic cards. We selected in total 32 different cards , 14 NVIDIA cards and 18 ATI cards. 23 cards are AGP and 9 cards are PCI-Express.

Welcome back! We continue our coverage of the Consumer Electronics Show 2005 with Shuttle this time. Shuttle had a noteworthy presence at the show floor with their numerous products on display. Shuttle launched their sleek LCD displays a while back and now they are back with much improved specifications. Shuttle has plans to introduce a newer 19" LCD monitor with 8ms response time.

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We've posted a new review on 3DXtreme.net - ASUS A8V Deluxe 939 Motherboard.

"Today 3DXtreme has the great pleasure of reviewing one of Asus? offering to the AMD Athlon64 socket 939 line, the A8V Deluxe. Historically it has been shown that performance from one motherboard to another on the Athlon64 platform has been very close across all manufacturers. We really don?t expect things to change much with the A8V. We then shift to finding the motherboard that offers the most features for the enthusiast who is looking to overclock the Athlon64 to it?s maximum potential. Can the A8V prove to be the one that we have been looking for? Let?s find out..."

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OCIA.net has posted an article on Unlocking / Overclocking the NVIDIA GeForce 6800. Below is a direct quote from the article:

"As you may know, one of the main differences between the 6800 base model and the GT version is the fact that the GT version comes with a total of 16 pixel pipelines, whereas the 6800 only has 12. I began reading on various message boards that some people were actually able to unlock the remaining four pixel pipelines on their 6800 cards for a total of 16, matching that of the GT model. This seemed completely reasonable, as the 6800 is more or less a watered-down version of its GT counterpart. My mind began to roam, wondering if it would be possible to unlock / overclock this base model XFX 6800 to the GT level, a card that cost nearly $130 more. And so my quest began..."

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Everything from Dual Core to DLP is covered in our CES show report...

Although it wasn't heavily advertised, Intel had a 925XE system running the new Pentium 4 600 series with a 2MB L2 cache in their booth. As you undoubtedly know by now, the Pentium 4 600 series is still a 90nm Prescott but with twice the L2 cache, EMT64 (x86-64) support as well as all of the features available in the current 500 series.

As everyone knows, Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the largest technology tradeshow in the IT Industry. CES is the place to be for information on next generation of digital products and future IT pipeline. We had the opportunity to visit the show this year and gathered quite a bit of industry insider information directly from companies and outside sources.

The chinese website HKEPC have snagged some details and slides of Intel's Pentium 4 660 series which could support EM64T!

HotHardware have snagged some photos of eVGA nForce5 SLI motherboard!

That's right people you're looking at dual PCI Express slots in a standard desktop board and we were told in a private session that these slots specifically support a dual X16 lane graphics configuration. We weren't able to pull the heatsink off the Northbridge but we are fairly certain (and it was noted to us by rep we met with) that this is an nForce based motherboards in pre-production status. The Southbridge looks to be an Intel ICH6 but we can't be too sure since it has engineering brandings on it. Regardless we thought you'd like to take a look at this up close and personal. nForce 5 for the P4 with SLI (if that is in fact what this board is) looks to be right around the corner!

As of next week, we will have a new mobile CPU in our midst, "Turion" codenamed. The processor from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is targeted to go head on with Intel's very popular Centrino Technology.

Everythingusb reports Perhaps the most versatile external device ever introduced, Creative's new USB Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Video Editor is first a THX-certified external sound card that delivers 24-bit Advanced HD in 5.1, 6.1 and 7.1 surround sound with EAX, Dolby Digital DX and DTS-ES support.

Several benchmark results from five different ATI X800XT Platinum Editions

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If you remember Intel warned us about the fact that you might brake the pins of your socket T motherboard if you remove and insert the CPU many times. Actually the motherboard that we managed to "damage" in our case (Albatron PX915G Pro) had more than 30 changes of the CPU so far. Some time ago we performed a test where we inserted and removed a P4 LGA-775 CPU into the socket (without the cooler) 100 times and there were no problems witht he pins, so we can conclude that the aditional force that the BOX socket T cooler applies is probably the cause for breaking the pin of the socket. See the pictures of the broken pin here

Got my rig up and running last night, thing are running flawless for the most part. It's definetely much easier to setup than I originally thought. The only problem I had was getting NBA Live 2005 to work, does not seem to be compatible at this time with SLI, but no worries, I'm sure a driver update will take care of that.

Still saving up your lunch money for a PCI Express graphics card? Salivating in anticipation for Nvidia 6600 series graphics card benchmark numbers? Or just bored enough to read part II of [M]'s PCI Express Graphics card comparison? No matter, Madshrimps got you covered here as they added an Albatron 6600 and a XFX 6600GT to the mix, stirred the pot, and came up with some interesting numbers that just may change your opinion of mainstream PCI Express graphics cards.

Both ATi and nVidia have had issues supplying their top of the range cards to retail channels over the past few months, the most notable example being ATi's X800 XT. However, ATi have been shuffling their products around a bit recently, and now we have a new kid on the block: the X800 XL. Undercutting nVidia's 6800 GT by around $100, it could quickly become an extremly popular card. Hexus.net have a preview.

Apple has begun to ship their Xsan product. The Xsan is a high performance, enterprise SAN (Storage Area Network) file system. The unit is priced at $999 per client and per server.

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